Hunberht[1] or Humberht[2] was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.

Hunberht
Bishop of Elmham
Appointedby 824
Term ended845 or 856, or November 869
PredecessorHunferthus
SuccessorEadwulf
Orders
Consecrationby 824
Personal details
Died845 or 856, or November 869

Hunberht was consecrated by 824.[3] The twelfth-century Annals of St Neots says that he crowned Edmund the Martyr as king at Burna on Christmas Day 856, but no source is known for this statement.[4]

Hunberht's date of death is uncertain; he may have died 845 or 856 or in November 869.[3]

After Hunberht, there was an interruption with the episcopal succession through the Danish Viking invasions in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. By the mid-10th century, the sees Elmham and Dunwich had been united under Bishop Eadwulf.

Citations

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  1. ^ Gransden 2004; Fryde 1996, p. 216.
  2. ^ Keynes 2002, table XIX (1 of 3).
  3. ^ a b Fryde 1996, p. 216.
  4. ^ Gransden 2004.

Sources

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  • Fryde, E. B.; et al., eds. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd with corrections ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
  • Gransden, Antonia (2004). "Edmund [St Edmund] (d. 869)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8500. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  • Keynes, Simon (2002). An Atlas of Attestations in Anglo-Saxon Charters, c.670-1066. Cambridge, UK: Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-0-9532697-6-1.
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Christian titles
Preceded by Bishop of Elmham
before 824-after 845
Succeeded by